What do you say! The wait for India’s first Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train will be over, the high-speed train will be tested on this route

• The country’s first bullet train will run next year
• Surat-Vapi 100 km route will be started
• Country’s first bullet train on track next year

Mumbai-Ahmedabad Bullet Train : The wait for India’s first bullet train will soon be over. India will get its first bullet train next year. Officials of the Ministry of Railways said, Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train One phase of the project will start in 2027 and the total length of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train route is 508 km. Of this route, 348 km will be in Gujarat, 156 km in Maharashtra and 4 km in Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

The bullet train service will start at about 100 km stretch between Surat and Vapi. Dharmendra Tiwari, Additional Director General of Indian Railways said that important work on the entire corridor has already been completed. The first phase of the bullet train project will be operational in 2027 between the cities of Surat and Vapi, covering a distance of about 100 km. This will be the first phase of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project. The country’s first bullet train project has taken a long time and has stalled due to cost overruns and delays.

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Total 12 stations

The first stop on this route will be Sabarmati in Gujarat and the last stop will be Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra. The next station starting from Sabarmati in Gujarat will be Ahmedabad. From Ahmedabad, the train will travel to Anand, Vadodara, Bharuch, Surat, Bilimora, Vapi, Boisar, Virar, Thane and finally Mumbai. The trains running on the country’s first bullet train route will run at a speed of 320 km per hour and cover a distance of 508 km in just 2 hours and 7 minutes.

The Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train project was expected to be completed in 2023. This iconic project, which uses Japan’s ‘Shinkansen’ technology, was inaugurated in 2017 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the then Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. The project was expected to be completed in 2023, but three years later, in 2026, none of its phases have been fully completed. Hence, the project will take a few more years to complete.

An ambitious project of 508 km

The total length of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train route is 508 km. Among them:

348 km route in Gujarat

156 km route in Maharashtra

The 4 km route is between Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

After the completion of this project, the travel time between Mumbai and Ahmedabad is expected to reduce from the current 6 to 7 hours to around 2 to 3 hours.

Modern stations and facilities

State-of-the-art stations, high-level security systems, anti-seismic technology, automatic signaling system and world-class passenger facilities are being developed under the bullet train project. The project is expected to give a major boost to employment generation, industrial development and economic connectivity between Maharashtra and Gujarat.

A historic milestone for India

The Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project is considered to be an important milestone in the infrastructure development of the country. The launch of the first phase in 2027 will usher in a new era in India’s rail transport and accelerate the country’s move towards fast, safe and modern public transport.

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